They also say sharing is caring!
Today fortunately
we don't teach our daughters to become proficient in cooking,
cleaning and prepare to excel their duties as wife, mother, daughter-in-law and
preferably forget their dreams, or
better existence. At-least the society has learned to accept
that a woman is capable of almost all the work has man does. She can be
the bread-earner of a family too. But the flawed theory is more with
the evolution of man from the dominant, to the hand in hand partner. He has
gracefully (almost) learned to accept the fact, that his partner is a corporate
player, a doctor or a successful businesswoman. But the difficulty is
with his and the society's incapability of accepting the fact that, as she is
sharing his load with jobs outside the four walls of the house, he should learn
to share her load within.
We brag about how modern our society has
become. We say that we are progressing at a lightning speed. Digital India!
Progressive India! But can a society actually progress without being able to
shed off the ingrained prejudices? Time for some thought! If you don't agree that
we have impregnated minds...just ask yourself the following few
questions
a. How many times have you
heard that a man was anxious about the meal he was supposed to prepare after
getting home, after chasing deadlines in office?
b. Does the man of a family,
of working partners think of the menu the cook will prepare?
c. Who is responsible for
washing clothes or at-least sending the clothes to the laundry?
d. Who keeps account of the
monthly groceries?
f. And my favourite, who
prepares tea/coffee (mostly, not interested in the occasional show
of generosity) after a wife and husband return home, both after a long day
at office?
g. After answering the above, just ask yourself "WHAT IS BEING PROGRESSIVE?" to you.
g. After answering the above, just ask yourself "WHAT IS BEING PROGRESSIVE?" to you.
The answers to the above questions and
many more will give a transparent picture of the prejudices our society carries.
And it is very important to prevent inculcating the same in the tender minds of
the generations to come. And the one and only way of doing it, is to exemplify
equality in the house. The man and woman of the house should be treated with
equal dignity and all work should be shared. A boy and girl child should not be
fed with different beliefs about their status in the society and more so in the
household. As both of them strive to be successful individuals, both should be
proficient in household chores. Such that these kids grow up to be successful
and sympathetic building blocks of a society, which could be called progressive
from the core.
“I am joining the
Ariel #ShareTheLoad campaign at BlogAdda and blogging
about the prejudice related to household chores being passed on to the next
generation.”
This video is extremely well made and symbolizes our society's pseudo progress
ARITRA CHAKRABARTY SENGUPTA
